A belle of the fifties
Subtitle: memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66
By: Virginia Clay-Clopton ; put into narrative form by Ada Sterling ; with introduction, annotations, and index by Leah Rawls Atkins, Joseph H. Harrison, Jr., and Sara A. Hudson.
Contributors: Sterling, Ada, d. 1939.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915.; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865.; Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Confederate States of America -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxviii) and indexes.
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Page, 1905.